1908 The four Cohans (George, Helen, Jerry, and Josephine) are the stars of The Yankee Prince. George M. Cohan wrote, directed, and co-produced the musical at Broadway's Knickerbocker Theatre. It runs 119 performances.

1927 Russian-born Sam Levene makes his Broadway debut in Wall Street at the Hudson Theatre. He studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. He later originates the role of Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls.

1951Davis Snow's The Long Days aren't very. Frances Starr plays a domineering mother who drives her husband and three sons to drink. She tossed her meddlesome daughter-in-law into an asylum and one night accidentally kills the one lush who was loyal to her. It runs three performances at the Empire Theatre on Broadway.

1999Emlyn Williams' Night Must Fall, which opened in March 8 at the Lyceum Theatre, reopens at the Helen Hayes Theatre. The production was scheduled to close April 11, but star Matthew Broderick decided to stay on with the show, making the transfer viable. The thriller focuses on a psychopathic bellboy and the spell he casts on several women in an English country house.

2011 Following a 2009 London premiere, the musical stage adaptation Sister Act—featuring a score by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater—opens in New York at the Broadway Theatre. Patina Miller makes her Broadway debut as Deloris Van Cartier, a singer on the run who transforms the lives of a convent full of nuns when she hides out among them.

2017 Bette Midler is back where she belongs, starring as Dolly Gallagher Levi in a Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!at the Shubert Theatre. Midler wins a Tony Award for her performance—her first leading role in a Broadway musical—and the production wins Best Revival of a Musical.